Lieutenant General Cheryl Pearce is the highest ranking woman in uniform in the United Nations. Her work is all about peacekeeping. Now the Acting Military Adviser for United Nations Peacekeeping Operations, after enlisting at 18, she battled rigid gender barriers to rise through the military ranks. In the newest episode of Awake At Night, we sat down for a powerful conversation about the meaning of peace, the sources of her mental and physical resilience and on making a robust case for peacekee